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This article was published on April 3, 2015 at 16:15.
The last change is the April 3, 2015 at 16:22.
There is a strange thread that binds Brussels for some time to Silicon Valley. A tangled thread, full of knots, which on one hand is governed by the European Commission, and on the other by the big company that in that piece of California have changed the fate of the world. A thread that is in serious danger of breaking and open a diplomatic rift between the States and the Old Continent. After all just bring back the phrase that Obama released to the press just a few weeks ago to understand that pulls air: “The United States has created and perfected the Internet, while you (referring to the EU, ed) know only taxing.”
> And after yesterday exploded cases Google and Apple – the first relating to a fine-billion coming and the second about the streaming music service that are launching from Cupertino – Today Facebook is the new stated goal. The news is once again the Wall Street Journal, according to which the social network of Mark Zuckerberg would be suspected of violating the privacy of users. And why would come under fire of six countries in the EU, ready to lavish million dollar fines to the colossus of Palo Alto. The countries are ready to ask for the bill to Facebook would Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Holland and Belgium. “We are aware of the investigations of the authorities of privacy in Belgium, Holland and Hamburg. We have not to date received any communication concerning investigations by other authorities of privacy in Europe. If and when we receive them, we will respond accordingly, “said a spokesman for Facebook to Wall Street Journal. “We have recently updated our terms of use and policy – reported even Facebook – to make them more clear and concise, to reflect the new features of the product and to highlight how we are expanding the control that people have on advertising.”
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